Abby had her first appointment with the lung specialist on Thurs. They looked at her monitor and the MD said she dosn’t see anything to be concerned about during the last two weeks she was on the monitor! However, she said they usually like to see them stay on the monitor until at least 42 weeks (the girls just passed their original 40 week due date) because technically they can still have breathing issues up through that point due to immaturity. But she said we don’t have to have the monitor on all the time, just mainly when she is sleeping unattended. So at least we can reduce the usage!

Abby is still have some coughing/choking spells when she eats which may just be because she eats too fast or could be another immaturity thing (she had this problem in the hospital too) So we are going to do a swallow study to make sure she isn’t aspirating anything into her lungs. Luckily it is not an invasive test, they just watch her while she eats. If she is having that problem, we will just have to thicken her milk for awhile which is not a huge deal. But we’ll see how that plays out over the next few weeks.

Other than that, both girls are doing great! There are some new pics of everyone on the left side of the page (not sure why they are not showing up on the right at the moment) It’s hard to believe they are almost a month old already!

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